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But Maher acknowledged that Obama faced a tough battle with the GOP to pass the Affordable Care Act.

“Can you imagine what it would be like if he said, ‘Yeah, some people you’re rates are going to go up.’ … If they had said that, they might have lost the whole thing,” Maher said.

Maher also said the rollout of Obamacare is “not working perfectly,” but was optimistic. “It was created because people were dying and the country was going broke. It’s going to be a rocky birth, but, it’s not going to fail,” Maher said.

However, Maher hit Obama’s credibility for not knowing the warnings facing the enrollment website, adding he could “never defend” Obama on that.

“Not credible and not excusable. I thought he was the detail guy, you know?” Maher said. “There’s just no way to excuse this or to say it’s a good thing. But, again, we’ll see where we are in a month.”

Meanwhile, Maher also took time to weigh in on 2016 saying Sen. Ted Cruz has a good chance at the GOP nomination and shouldn’t be underestimated.

“I think he has an absolute shot at the nomination. He is definitely going to be the favorite of the people who vote in Republican primaries,” Maher said.

Despite the recent criticism Cruz (R-Texas) has faced, even Maher, who’s poked fun at the Texas senator on his own HBO show, said that Cruz “has played it exactly right.”

“You cannot underestimate him and he knows exactly how to get those people’s votes,” Maher continued. “He has played it exactly right. He is their hero. He is the guy they think finally stood up to the establishment and did what he said and went to Washington … So he is going to be very difficult to beat in the primaries.”